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| Sat, 10 May 2008 00:10:24 GMT Technology Alarm at Google Yahoo partnering US advocacy groups urge regulators to block any deal Google and Yahoo might strike after a two-week experiment. |
| Fri, 09 May 2008 16:54:11 GMT Technology Burma's emergency telecoms delay Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms are prevented from going into Burma. |
| Fri, 09 May 2008 16:33:23 GMT Business Microsoft contests $1.4bn EU fine Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour. |
| Thu, 08 May 2008 19:39:17 GMT Technology Facebook agrees child safety plan Facebook agrees a deal to protect children on the site from sexual predators and cyber bullies. |
| Fri, 09 May 2008 00:20:01 GMT Technology MySpace lets users share data MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing. |
| Fri, 09 May 2008 06:16:55 GMT Business Google keen on better Yahoo ties Google expresses interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo. |
| Thu, 08 May 2008 10:11:17 GMT Technology Fake media file snares PC users A booby-trapped media file is catching out tens of thousands of file-sharers, says a security firm. |
| Sat, 10 May 2008 13:29:27 GMT UK Cash cuts see green grants halved The number of grants to people fitting green energy systems in their homes has halved, the BBC has learned. |
| Sun, 11 May 2008 23:04:59 GMT Edinburgh, East and Fife Giant panda hope for Scottish zoo Edinburgh Zoo enters into negotiations to bring a pair of giant pandas from China to Scotland. |
| Thu, 08 May 2008 18:04:09 GMT Science/Nature Great tits cope well with warming Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds. |
| Thu, 08 May 2008 12:51:01 GMT Science/Nature 'No bias' against UK astronauts UK government opposition to human spaceflight will be no bar to its citizens becoming astronauts, Esa says. |
| Fri, 09 May 2008 09:12:22 GMT Science/Nature New batch of walruses tagged Ten of Greenland's walruses are fitted with sat-tags to confirm whether the blubbery beasts migrate to Canada. |
| Wed, 07 May 2008 17:06:08 GMT Science/Nature Platypus genetic code unravelled The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals - the duck-billed platypus - is deciphered. |
| Wed, 07 May 2008 14:48:57 GMT Science/Nature EU's sat-nav pioneer calls home A demonstrator satellite for the European Galileo system begins transmitting navigation signals back to Earth. |
| Sun, 11 May 2008 18:00:00 +0100 Science/Nature Treatment hope for killer pregnancy condition Pre-eclampsia, a condition that kills thousands of women and babies every year, may be treatable with a chemical found naturally in the body |
| Sun, 11 May 2008 14:44:00 +0100 Science/Nature Rats feel peer pressure too It's not just humans who succumb to peer pressure ? brown rats too will disregard personal experiences and copy the behaviour of their peers |
| Sun, 11 May 2008 09:54:00 +0100 Science/Nature Stigma helps AIDS flourish in Russia Homophobia and the stigmatisation of people with HIV and AIDS are hampering efforts to tackle the spread of infection in the countries of the former Soviet Union |
| Sat, 10 May 2008 14:55:00 +0100 Science/Nature Scanning corpses reveals killer's fingerprints The corpses of murder victims can now betray the identity of their killers, thanks to a technique that can capture fingerprints left on a body |
| Sat, 10 May 2008 11:26:00 +0100 Science/Nature Restaurant smoking bans stop teens getting the habit Such smoking bans don't just protect diners and staff from other people's smoke, they help stop young people becoming habitual smokers |
| Sat, 10 May 2008 08:34:00 +0100 Science/Nature Why didn't Earth freeze under faint young Sun? The explanation for why a dimmer Sun didn't chill our planet could lie in a miscalculation in atmospheric models |
| Fri, 9 May 2008 20:41:00 +0100 Science/Nature Astronomers begin search for 'vanishing' stars A new survey is monitoring a million massive stars to see if any suddenly disappear, imploding to become black holes |